Ten of 30 Grenade attack suspects have been sentence to life yesterday for their role in connection to series of Grenade attacks in Rwanda.
Kigali based High Court presided over by Judge Pie Mugabo ruled that seven of the suspects also be imprisoned for 20 years, while one of them ordered to be detained for 15 years.
Others sentences included two of them getting ten years of prison while 8 of the suspects acquitted.
They were all accused of destabilizing country’s security. Security is one of the Rwanda’s sensitive areas that government don’t want comprised.
The Court established that they were guilty of different grenade attacks that claimed lives and injured several others and conniving with DR Congo based terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) terrorist group.
However the presiding Judge announced that whoever was not satisfied, had legal rights to appeal the court decision within the time frame of 30 days provided by law.
Story by Magnifique Migisha, a Journalist from Rwanda, East Africa.
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